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After a pair of hitting errors by Fort Worth South Hills, the Boyd Lady Yellowjackets moved within a point of closing out the match Tuesday in the fourth set.

That point would never come.

TOUGH AT THE NET – Boyd’s Linsey Chancellor hits the ball back over the net during the Lady Yellowjackets’ loss to South Hills Tuesday in five games. Messenger Photo by Joe Duty

South Hills rallied from a 24-20 deficit in the set to win it 27-25. They went on to take the fifth-game tiebreaker and the match 21-25, 25-22, 17-25, 27-25, 15-7.

“We’re young and are having to fight through some mental mistakes,” said Boyd coach Dusty Crafton. “We have to have that killer instinct. We did some good things. It’s frustrating when we could have won in three and lost in five.”

After South Hills rallied to even the match and force the tiebreaker, its Te’Anna Taylor took over at the net. She recorded six kills in the fifth set – all within the game’s first 12 points – as South Hills built a 10-2 lead.

Boyd pulled within five, 12-7, on one of Kayleigh Pappajohn’s eight kills. That was as close as the Lady Yellowjackets would get.